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Monday, March 9, 2026

Literate Programming Deserves a Second Look in the Agent Era

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With AI agents writing and reading code, the case for literate programming — where prose and code interleave — is stronger than ever. This essay argues the paradigm shift in how we author code for machine collaborators.

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